Missing Nicola Bulley's friend questions 'dog ball in river' theory on how she vanished
dailyrecord.co.ukA close pal of missing Nicola Bulley has questioned a police theory that the mum may have fallen into a river while retrieving a toy for her dog.Close friend Emma White has raised questions after it was suggested Nicola may have gone into the River Wyre in Lancashire.She claims the theory is based on "limited information" and that Nicola had stopped taking dog Willow's tennis balls with her over a year ago.
Emma told SkyNews : "Willow used to love a tennis ball very much but it used to disturb their walks so they haven’t had a tennis ball since way into last year.
Obviously she loved the tennis ball so she’d always be by you, pestering you for the ball - but it wasn’t a nice walk when the dog’s pestering - so there was definitely no ball." The Mirror reports that authorities do not believe a third party was involved and have described the disappearance as "not suspicious but a tragic case of a missing person".
Police have so far found Nicola's dog Willow, who was found running alone with her harness and lead on the floor and her phone, which was found on a bench still connected to a work conference call.
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